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Originally Posted by kronas
i choose the option to press 'R' to repair it just brings me to the c:windows prompt what do i do after that.......
and it seems my bios is having troble detecting whats on my IDE cables  |
This is because the repair option is just to give you a command line so that you can try and fix your pc at a lower level. It is doing what it should but you need to know what to do next.
What happens when you use the /F option, can you provide the results? If you run it again, is the same error still showing.
Also, there is another command that you can use if all else fails, its called FIXMBR and you would run it from the dos promt in the repair option. This will rebuild your master boot record, but if it cant be rebuilt you hard drive is fooked from a software point of view and will need a reformat.
You say that the BIOS is having problems with seeing your hard disk though, this could be the cable but is more likely to be the disk and it makes it much more likely that this is a hardware and not a software problem. You just got to swap it out and see if the problem goes away.
If it does you know your hard disk is a gonner, and if its under a year old you could send it back to the manufacturer to get them to attempt a data recovery on it.